Motor for operating pumps



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F. E. DOWN'EY & J; M. COLLIER.

MOTOR FOR OPERATING PUMPS.

No. 369,634. Patented Sept. 6, 1887;

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F. E. DOWNEY & J. M. COLLIER. MOTOR FOR OPERATING PUMPS.

No. 369,634. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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IINiTED STATES PATENT Orrrce.

FRANK E. DOWNEY AND JAMES M. COLLIER, OF DUDLEY, ILLINOIS.

MOTOR FOR OPERATING PUMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,634, dated September 6, 1.887.

Serial "No. 233,409. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK E. DOWNEY and J AMES M. OOLLIER,citizens of the United States, residing at Dudley, in the county of Edgar and State of Illinois, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Motors for Operating Pumps; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the'letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention has relation to pump-motors; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter fully described, and set out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of our machine with the front casing and the front end of the reservoir removed that the running-gear and the operating parts of the machine may be seen. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the rear face of the machine and the pump. Fig. 3 is a detail View.

Our invention is described as follows:

A represents the well; B B, the walls thereof; 0, a platform in the well just above the surface of the water; D, a platform, on which the running-gear of the power and the reservoir rest.

E is the pump-stock, which extends from the water below to a point some little distance above the reservoir F.

G is a pipe, which extends from the pump stock to conduct the waterinto the reservoir F.

H is a crank, which operates the pitman K, which in turn operates the valve L.

M is a water-bucket, which acts as a weight when full of water to rotate the main drivingwheel N of the running-gear.

O is another driving-wheel, driven by N, and drives the pinion P, which has on the rear end of its shaft the crank'H, above mentioned.

Q is an escapement wheel and lever, de-

R is a water-bucket to raise the bucket M.

S S represent two sets of guides to direct the buckets in their downward course.

T and T are pins to open the valves in the bottoms of the said buckets.

\Ve more particularly describe our invention thus: The gearing, consisting of the wheels above described, is secured in a suit able frame-work, which frame-work is secured to the platform D over the top of the well by bolts and nuts d or other suitable means. The main shaft of the driving-wheel N has on it a winding-sleeve, n, to one end of which is rigidly secured a ratchet-wheel, it, held from turning backward by a pawl, n, which is secured to one arm of said driving-wheel. A cord, m, has its upper end attached to said winding-sleeve,while its lower end is attached to the bail of the bucket M. Attached to the same windingsleeve nis the upper end of another cord, 1", while its lower end is attached to the hail of the bucket It. This cord passes over a pulley, r, the sole purpose of which is to throw the said cord out, so that the two buckets will not strike each other in. ascending and descending. The reservoir F is provided with two valves, ff, which are hinged to the bottom of the said reservoir. To the upper face of these valves are hinged orlinked two rods, f f*, which are rigidly secured about equidistant from either end of the leversf f one end of each of which is hinged to the outer edge of the said reservoir, so that the other ends may be moved up and down, and thus operate the valves f f, which, by so operating,close and open the upper ends of the tubes g, which are secured in the bottom of the said reservoir, and through which the water in the reservoir is permitted to escape into the buckets M and It when the said valves are raised. To the free ends of theleversff are secured rods g 9 the lower ends of which are coiled round the cords m 1", which are attached to the buckets M Rand are of such length that when the bucket M is drawn up,as shown inFig. 1, the lower end ofthe rod g impinges against a knot, g, or other obstruction on the cord at and is raised, and thus raises the leverf and the valve f. WVhen the valve is thus raised, water is permitted to flow through the pipe g into the bucket M. \Vhen the bucket M is thus filled with water, it becomes a weight heavy enough to move the driving-wheel N, which revolves the other wheel, 0, and the pinion P, which rotates the crank-handle H, which operates the pump-valve and raises the water from the well through the pump-stock E, from which it flows through the pipe G into the reservoir F. As the said bucket M descends,

it is directed in its course by the guides S, so that its center will immediately strike the pin T. Through the bottom of the said bucket is an opening, over which is hinged a valve, t, exactly similar to the valve 1?, shown in the bucket B. On the top of these valves are secured weights t to assure their ready closing. When the bucket M reaches nearly to the platform 0, the pin T passes through the opening in its bottom and raises the valve 76, and the water in the said bucket is allowed to run out. Being empty, it is light. As it was descending, however, the smaller bucket, R, having been discharged of its contents by the operation of its valve t in the manner just U full.

above described, was ascending, and just at the period of time when the bucket M struck the platform G the knot g on the cord 1" impinged against the lower end of the rod g ,and thus threw up the valve f, and the water in the'reservoir was permitted to flow through the tube into the said bucket R until it was Being thus filled, it became a weight sufficient to turn the sleeve n backward around the shaft of the driving-wheel N, and thus would wind up the bucket M, and when the said bucket M again reaches the lower end of the rod 9 it would again throw up the valve f, through which the water would again be permitted to tlow into the said bucket, when it would again becomea weight and rotatethe said drivingwheel N; and as it goes down the smaller bucket, R, is again carried up and strikes the rod 9" and raises the valvef, and is again filled with water and again descends and draws up the said bucket M, and so on.

The detail view is described as follows: It is a view, partly in section, of the upper end of the pump stock E. The valve is not shown, because it is inclosed in the said well. The rod L, however, may be considered as a part of the said valve, as it is the handle attached to it. On the upper end of the said pump-stock is a bracket, Z, on which the lower end of a spiral spring, Z, rests. The said spiral spring is coiled around rod L, and the upper end rests against the lower face of a nut, Z". The object of the said spring is to assist in raising the valve. When the valve goes down, the said spring will be pressed together,

and then it will assist in raising the said valve, so that less force in the other parts of the machinery will be required. The principal force is required in raising the valve,while there is very little required to lower it.

To start the motor to work we fill the reservoir F with water, pumping it up from the well by hand or other means, or by conducting it into the same from some other point. The said reservoir is thus refilled as often as it becomes empty.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of thegearing described,

operating the crank H and the pump, the

sleeve n, adapted to revolve around the main shaft of the driving-wheel N and having the ratchet-wheel n, the pawl n; cords m r, having the knots g 9 their upper ends attached to said sleeve n and their lower ends to the buckets M R, buckets M and It, having through their bottoms openings closed by hinged valves t t, pins T T, operating the valves, rods g 9 their lower ends coiled around the said cords m r and their upper ends secured to the free ends of the leversf f levers f f hinged to the upper edge of the reservoir F, rods f f, secured to the said levers and their lower ends to the valvesff, valvesff, hinged to the bottom of the reservoir F, and reservoir F, having attached to its bottom pipes, g 9 adapted to convey water into the buckets M and R, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the bracket Z, secured on the pump stock E, rod L, spiral spring Z, coiled round rod L, its lower end resting on the bracket land its upper end against the lower face of the nut Z on said rod, and pitman K, working on the crank H, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK E. DOWNEY. J AMES M. COLLIER. Witnesses:

J OAB HEMPHILL, J. E. COLLIER. 

